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Glid e №: DR-2022-000168-ETH
The current Federation-wide funding coverage for the Ethiopia Hunger Crisis is 52% (CHF 6,512,346 of the total Federation-wide funding requirement of CHF 12.5M). The Multilateral component of the Appeal is covered at 18% (CHF 1,472,119 of the CHF 8M Funding Requirement) and Bilateral/Unilateral coverage is at 112% (CHF 5,040,227 of the CHF 4.5M Funding Requirement). Here below is a presentation of detailed tabulation of the funding
A. SITUATION ANALYSIS
Description of the crisis
Decades following six consecutive failed rainy seasons. The country has a high dependency on rainfed agriculture, and recent reductions in economic growth rates, rapid population growth, weak institutional capacity, and high levels of conflict make it particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. While climatic conditions differ substantially across Ethiopia, the average temperature is projected to increase, and rainfall is expected to become more erratic. Ethiopia's long history of drought, famine, and locust outbreaks all further the need for increased capacity and resilience to cope with the projected impacts of climate change.
A worsening and expanding drought over the last few months expected to continue in the coming months following our consecutive failed rainy seasons in parts of Ethiopia, the drought impact has continued to worsen and expand over the last few months with more are as affected, notably in Afar.
According to UN OCHA, on 8, September 2022, the Ethiopian drought response revised report revealed that 24.1 million people are affected by drought in Ethiopia. Recent weather forecasts point towards a higher likelihood that the upcoming deyr/haya rainy season (October – December 2022) will also be below-average, making it an unprecedented fifth consecutive failed rainy season. Already, owing to the revised methodology used for revising this plan to strengthen the identification of drought-affected areas, the number of affected woredas increased from 157 in the first iteration of the Drought Response Plan to 391 by the end of June.
Over the recent years, drought-affected pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in southern and eastern Ethiopia have suffered from the impact of multiple and often recurring shocks. In addition to four back-to-back failed rainy seasons since late 2020 (the worst in the last 40 years), these communities have endured the impact of desert locust infestations, conflict, and disease outbreaks, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, the expansion and continuation of the drought has not only affected more people, but it has also significantly increased the severity of their needs and eroded remaining resilience mechanisms almost completely. In addition, the drought has expanded to areas that have also been affected by conflict in Northern Ethiopia, notably in the Afar region, or violence in another part of the country, notably in Oromia and SNNP regions, subjecting affecting people to increase vulnerability.
The drought impact continued to worsen and to expand over the last few months with more areas affected, notably 9,788 Afar. According to FEWS NET, “pasture conditions are among the driest on record, with few to no migration options. implementing response activities. Subsequently, an estimated 3.5 million livestock have died between late 2021 and mid-May 2022, and herd sizes are likely to decline further given very limited livestock births this season and high offtake expected during the upcoming dry season." An additional 25 million weakened and emaciated livestock are also at risk of death, which is devastation for a population heavily reliant on livestock for nutrition, notably for children, and income.